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Lake Karachay

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The most polluted place on Earth - Lake Karachay

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Russia’s Lake Karachay – The Most Contaminated Place on Earth

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Most Polluted😱 Spot On Earth | Karachay Lake | #shorts #karachay

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This Lake Is deadlier Than Chenobyl! | Lake Karachay | Ways To Die

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Karachay Lake

Lake Karachay, sometimes spelled Karachai or Karachaj, was a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in central Russia. Starting in 1951, the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk. Today the lake is completely infilled, acting as "a near-surface permanent and dry nuclear waste storage facility."